Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-07-27
STATE ITEMS.

forms has gone dntO effect. Inc con-
ductors, as we'll as brakemen, have
adopted the same style of suits, with
the exception of the buttons and
trimming, the former wearing gold
and the latter silver trimmings and
buttons.
The body of Charles Grisbach,
drowned while bathing in the lake
near the lite-saving station, at Mil
waukee, was found floating near Jones
Island. Mr.. Grisbach was q pattern
maker and lived on Clinton Street.
The Minerva blast furnace of the
Milwaukee Furnace Company has
been banked down for about week,
owing to g. scarcity of the supply Of
coke.
IT is reported that the Rodermund
brewery property at Madison will be
bought by q syndicate including sew
eral Chicago men, and remodeled into
q pork packing establishment.
ADELBERT Moon is under arrest in
Eau Claire for obtaining groceries
under false pretenses.
THE Madison authorities will en-
force the ordinance requiring the
hitching Of horses left on the streets.
OF twin children born in Eau Claire,
one was provided with only trans
parent membrane over q portion of
the abdomen, through which g. por,
ton OF the viscera, including the liver,
could be distinctly seen. The child
lived only thirty-six hours.
Work has been commenced on the
new postoffice block at Ashland
Houses are to be numbered and the
free postal delivery will be introduced
in g short time.
q. SEEFELDT, contractor at Prai-
RE du CHEN, was fatally injured by
the giving wav of g. barn floor while
be was stabling q horse. His hip was
fractured and side crushed.
JAMES MCGILL, of Madison, was
drowned at Minot, d. II.
r. HENRY, q pioneer Of Dane Coun-
ty, died at Dunn, aged II years.
LA CROSSE had a shower of chinch
bugs-millions of the insects swarm
ing the streets.
JOSEPH WARD was fined $40 aud
costs at Eau Claire, for killing prairie
chickens out of season.
JOHN BILLET, an Eau Claire laborer,
was found dead in ravine near the
city. There were no marks of violence
on the body.
GEN. A. G. PARKINSON, of Madison,
collector Of internal revenue, has ap-
pointed 0. S. Norsman, late Demo-
cratic register of deeds of Dane Coun-
ty, office deputy.
The Mcfarland liquor case, from
the village of Deerfeld, which started
in Justice court and went up through
the courts until it reached the SUI
preme court, now goes back to the
Dane County circuit court for q re-
hearing.
TIE Interstate fair will be held on
the fair grounds at Madison, Octo-
Der 3 to s. The premiums to be of.
fered will aggregate $4,000 while
other substantial inducements to ex-
hibitors will be made.
WILL WHITE came near dying a
Eau Claire from the effects of poison
absorbed from a pair Of socks that
had been dyed with coloring contain
ing arsenic or other poisonous mat
ter.
JOHN GOEsLINE was sentenced at
Bayfield, to prison for five years for
having caused the death of John Heul.
". 81. GRIFFIN hes been held for pre-
liminary examination at Ashland, on
the charge that ne caused the death of
his mistress at the fremont House by
throwing a burning lamp at her.
Dist.-Atty. Miles has refused to prose-
cute the case on the ground that the
evidence was not sufficient to hold
Griffin to account.
JOHN RILEY, an employe in the saw
mill OF Leathem & Smith, at Sturgeon
Bay, was seriously injured by q slab
flying from saw. He was struck on
the upper lip, knocking out three or
four teeth, and was insensible for sew
eral minutes. This is the third time
he has been injured within a year.
A MANS arm was found in garbage
sinkhole near La Crosse. The police
are unable to account for the member
being there, but think crime was not
committed.
THERE has just been issued by the
secretary OF state 5000 copies in a
vest-pocket pamphlet form, the game
and fish laws of the state. They are
for the use of the game wardens and
their deputies.
Four persons died in La Crosse dur
ing the recent warm spell from sun
stroke.
GEORGE WERNER, of the town OF
Milwaukee, charged with killing Henry
Sengbusch while Furnishing him for
misconduct, has been acquitted of
murder. The parents of the boy will
enter q civil suit for damages.
JOHN HoRRIGAN tried to ride from
Madison to Lakeside on ar east
bound stock train on the st. Paul
road. While on the grading across
Lake Monona he claims he was push.
ed off head-frst. He struck on the
rocks, receiving severe wounds to the
scalp, tearing it open several inches in
one place, and also bruising one
shoulder.
A BEAR made a raid on the beehives
OF w. b. Cheeseman, at Thayerport,
Door County, and managed to secure
q small amount of honey.